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Julia Droulia gave the Tesco Superstore at Milton a five star rating. "Loads of parking space. Quite a big Tesco with a variety of products. Friendly personnel. It has a bakery section with very good bread."

Alessandro Blasi disagrees and thinks Newmarket Road is the Tesco store to go to. "Good location with large range of products and friendly helpful staff you can find local products and from around the world. Good value for money"

Customers were also very positive about Tesco Extra at Bar Hill. Paul Bennett said: "I use this Tesco all the time. It pretty much has everything you need under one roof. Also the self scan bar code readers make it so much easier to shop."

Tesco have certainly been living up to their reputation as retail kings, with very positive reviews all around.

Asda, Beehive centre

Asda, The Beehive Centre, Cambridge

Asda have been in the press a lot lately what with their controversial jumpers, magnificent magnum bottles of prosecco and THAT swimming pool.

They have also been the winner of the lowest price supermarket award for the past 16 years and focus around "saving you money every day".

So let's see what the Cambridge folk had to say about the Green army.

Ruth Starnes rated Asda at the beehive centre five stars and said: "On the pound, the money stretches far enough to get ALL of your weekly shopping. Good fresh vegetables, fruits, spices. I love the waffles."

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Pauline Mitchell, pretty much agreed, rating it four stars. "Helpful staff, clean loo's both make shopping in Cambridge less uncomfortable. The shop has clothes and electronic equipment plus in house pharmacy."

But a week ago, Clare Margaret was slightly unimpressed by the Walmart owned budget business saying it was "not as good as usual I'm afraid..a lot of items hadn't been priced up on the shelves."

And Simone Chalkley thought that although "staff were helpful and friendly and the shop had a good selection of products" she "would have bought more if there were more eco-friendly lines avaliable."

All in all, the people of Google reviews were happy with the service, cost and produce available at Asda, although they did think there should be more eco-friendly lines, and a less "chaotic shop design".

Sainsbury's

Sainsbury's are the second largest supermarket in the country, promoting a "live well for less" philosophy, focusing around quality and value.

The chain have many stores across Cambridge, including Brooks Road, Sidney Street, Mill Road, St Andrews Street, Clifton Way and Station Road.

Here's how shoppers in Cambridge rate the store.

Andrew Burrows gave Sainsbury's on Brooks Road a five star rating - and revealed his family had ditched Tesco for it.

He said: "We've been committed tesco shoppers for years but we started coming here because we go to church over the road. What started as an occasional "top-up shop" has become more regular and bigger. The store is well laid out with a great range of products and friendly staff."

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Jay Alb also gave the store a five star review. "Big supermarket with everything you'd expect from a sainsburys. It has a big car park, cafe, petrol station."

However the Sainsbury's Local on Hills Road wasn't rated quite so highly. Tom Sharman wrote: "It's an okay place to shop, the lunch items to choose from are rather dull and expensive. The organisation of the tills and self serve are just tragic but okay if you need to pop in for something quick."

Jerry Cummins disagreed, giving it a full five stars. "The only problem is sometimes the avocados are not very ripe, but then i will just buy guacamole instead."

It seems to be that once people discover Sainsbury's they are reluctant to go anywhere else.

Waitrose

Waitrose is a chain of British supermarkets, which forms the food retail division of Britain's largest employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis Partnership.

Priding themselves on a "Never Knowingly Undersold" policy, Waitrose will guarantee you, if nothing else a high end shopping experience, and some seriously fancy flavoured crisps.

With stores in stores in Trumpington, Cambridge and Ely, let's see how people rated the big dogs of retail in Cambridge.

Sara Seddon had a five star experience when she visited Waitrose in Trumpington. She said: "Favourite place to shop. The car park can get very busy so if i'm going just for a few items i leave the car at home and walk. Great quality and choice."

And Jamie Pope was impressed with the amount of stock in such a small store. "Although small, there are surprisingly many everyday things you would need in this store. They do hot breakfast and lunch in a heater cabinet, so you can grab porridge or soup at the relevant times, amongst others. Small bakery and two coffee machines, along with a decent sandwiches selection."

It seems that the big prices don't put people off shopping at Waitrose, with near enough every review being positive and giving the supermarket a rating of four and five stars.

Marks and Spencer Simply Food

M&S in Cambridge

Marks and Spencer is Which? supermarket of the year, and there's quite a few stores across Cambridge, including Sidney Street, Cambridge Station and The Beehive Centre.

Specialising in the selling of clothing, home products and luxury food products (and percy pigs!), the company underwent a rebranding in 2008 and began to sell other branded goods such as Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

Let's find out how Cambridge folk feel about a bit of M&S on a Saturday morning.

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Catherine Ross is a huge advocate of M&S, giving the Beehive centre store five stars.

She said: "I love this store, plenty of parking, long opening hours, lots of choice, and a small selection of clothing/home items. Being out of the city centre, it's generally much easier to get to and rarely has queues for the tills."

Likewise Trevor Cook is a fan with another five star rating. "Staff are friendly and professional high quality food reflected by the price. Free parking plenty of spaces."

Oliver Shreeve, rated it five stars. "Small but really friendly staff, that do their best to help you in that typical Cambridge manner. Best place to pick up food before getting on the train, although it does have the disadvantage of not serving coffee, so that has to be bought on the other side of the barriers."

Those comments prove it's not just any old supermarket, but an M&S supermarket.

Aldi , Histon Road

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It's the dark horse of the supermarket world and shopping on a budget has never been easier.

The budget supermarket specialises in selling a range of grocery items, including produce, meat and dairy, at discount prices.

And on a weekly basis we are over-awed by the amount of amazing products they release which rival high end brands.

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So let's see what the bargain loving buyers of Cambridge thought about Aldi.

SkyMonster Jou rated the Cambridge Aldi five stars. "Great variety of items sold at cheap prices compared to most others. Product quality, however, is not affected by the price tag! Tends to have a bit of a queue at checkout but it is not too long of a wait. Vegetables seem to be always out of stock in the evening though."

Titusz Bán thinks Aldi is fairly run of the mill, rating it three stars. "It's an Aldi. With everything that comes with an Aldi. Off-brand goods, boxes and crates lying around, staff that's always in a hurry, and just wants you gone. But it's really, really, really cheap. And it's a much neater Aldi, than the ones in the north. But the problem with this one, that it's often low on supplies."

Well if nothing else, we've learned that Aldis in the south are better than the ones in the north.

It seems that all of the supermarkets in Cambridge come hotly recommended, so you can jump between the lot of them and still come away smiling.